The FDA Should Not Repeat Past Mistakes on Sugar

The FDA Should Not Repeat Past Mistakes on Sugar

By: Justin Schwegel

The FDA’s past dietary guidelines contributed to an obesity epidemic by encouraging food manufacturers to reformulate food by removing fat and adding sugar to make it more palatable. The new food labeling guidelines on added sugar are triggering a similar reformulation of processed products that could do little to benefit consumer health.

Codex MLs for Lead in Wine

The Codex methodology for revising lead maximum limits is flawed for age-restricted products

By: Justin Schwegel

This is an abridged version of an article that will be published in the University of Arkansas Law School’s Journal of Food Law and Policy. When the full citation is available this post will be updated.

In 2017 the Codex Alimentarius Committee on Contaminants in Food’s (CCCF) electronic working group (EWG) to revise the maximum levels (MLs) for lead proposed to revise the maximum level (ML) for lead in wine from .2 parts per million (ppm) to .05 ppm.